Resources for Writers

Here are just a few sites and books you may find helpful. Feel free to let us know if you have others to recommend.

Helpful Books:

Books about the business of writing

The Authors Guide to Building an Online Platform
Stephanie Chandler

The Perfect Pitch: How to Catch a Literary Agent’s Eye
Katharine Sands

How to Write a Book Proposal
Michael Larsen

Write the Perfect Book Proposal: 10 That Sold and Why
Jeff Herman & Deborah Levine Herman

The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Getting Published
Sheree Bykofsky, Jennifer Basye Sander

Writers’s guides

2010 Writers Market
Katie Struckel Brogan (Editor), Robert Brewer (Editor)

2010 Writers Guide to book Editors, Publishers, and Literary Agents
Jeff Herman

2010 Guide to Literary Agents
Writers Digest Books

2010 Sally Stuart’s Christian Writer’s Market Guide
http://www.stuartmarket.com
Literary Marketplace (Library)

Books to encourage and inspire writers

Art & Fear: Observations on the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking
David Bayles & Ted Orland

Bird by Bird
Anne Lamott

Writing the Breakout Novel
Donald Maass

Writing Down the Bones
Natalie Goldberg

The Writer’s Journey
Christopher Vogler